Over the weekend, I met up with my mom who I gave a Kindle Fire HD 8.9 tablet as a Christmas present last year. Well, it turns out my mom who lives in South Korea, wasn’t really using the tablet much as she couldn’t download any apps nor play any flash-enabled Korean dramas.

One of the culprits of Kindle Fire tablets is lack of support for users outside the U.S. My mom could not download any apps (due to the fact that her account address is set to South Korea and wouldn’t work even when the address was changed to her U.S. address) nor did Amazon App Store suppor

If you want to be running on the latest Jelly Bean Android 4.1.2 and have a ton of customizations over stock Jelly Bean, check out AOKP Jelly Bean ROM for your Kindle Fire. I think this is certainly the best ROM out right now for your Kindle Fire.

AOKP brings a ton of UI customizations to your Kindle Fire while also giving you a pure Google experience. You can customize many things including the lockscreen, power menu, sound, add weather/calendar widgets to lockscreen, and much more.

Beyond just that, if you want to turn your Kindle Fire into a pure Android tablet devi

With a ton of new ICS ROMs like this Energy CM9 ICS ROM, it makes the Kindle Fire the best ICS tablet your money can buy right now at this moment. The Energy CM9 ICS ROM is another great ICS ROM that can be overclocked to 1.2Ghz, and I notice a “super fast” lag-free experience on this ROM.

Couple weeks back we saw one of the first beta versions of ICS on the Kindle Fire. Well, someone has been working hard to port CyanogenMod 9 ICS ROM to Kindle Fire and boy, it’s almost there with most things working including sound.

The only thing not working in the ROM is video decoding, which doesn’t allow you to watch Netflix movies and alike but if you don’t watch Netflix, this ROM might suit you fine.